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The Freedom Collections was performed at Festival de Wereld van het Witte de Withkwartier. Petr Kazil who was in the audience described it as "a nice combination of a group-problem-solving-session, slapstick, street-act, fashion-show and art-performance".

Tour de Squat was a work a part of the Frames of Thinking exhibition at the Poortgebouw. It is a zine showcasing an illustrative typeface I developed in 2007 using squatted and abandoned buildings in Rotterdam as the components of each letter.

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Do you have an interesting skill up your sleeves? Would you like to learn a new one? Skill Swap is an informal D.I.O (do it ourselves) learning format for anyone interested to share or learn a new skill, be it practical, impractical, artistic, technical, scientific, obscure, entertaining or obsolete. It's about learning together on Sunday afternoons. Anyone can join to learn and share a skill in a workshop. Each time, a new person shares a skill of their choosing.

Departing from the idea of the cat piano, I would like to create a human piano. The rough idea is that as a human-piano, each persons' hand or fingers becomes a piano key that when touched by the player, produces sound. Each human-piano-key can come up with their own sound(s) or decide collectively, or indeed change during the composition unpredictably.

The Freedom Collection consists of 3 suits that lock the body into certain positions; a full body strait jacket, a cocoon that traps the body into a posture that allows nothing except the fingers to move and type and lastly a suit that renders the body absurd.

The Work-In-Progress (W-I-P) is a program in which Roodkapje offers studio space for the realisation of artist projects. I stayed there for 3 weeks in the summer of 2014 working mainly on The Freedom Collection and partly on the Pink Flamingo series. The Freedom Collection was later performed during the Festival de Wereld van het Witte de Withkwartier.

Incognito flash mob 3 piece costume. Appears ordinary when each person is walking individually, however when the group of 4 align together spontenously a gigantic face forms. The intention is that they perform as a public broadcasting medium, in which the flash mob will speak out comments taken anonymously from the public.

Wind Media / Physical Cinema is a proposal for a cinematic experience using low-tech methods without the need of electricity and cables. By exploiting natural forces such as wind and light, Physical Cinema uses the most basic of technologies to create sound and image. In combination with physical action and the viewers imagination as the ultimate animating machine, a mobile cinematic experience is created.

Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them.

Mella Jaarsma's work comments on social and political issues within Indonesian society, mainly: discrimination, racialism, minorities and identity. Her most well known work are body-covering shelters made out of unexpected materials. Jaarsma grew up in the Netherlands and studied visual art at Groningen in her early years, before leaving for Jakarta to attend the Art Institute and later the Indonesia Institute of the Arts in Yogyakarta.

The project by Lucy Orta consists of a series of temporary shelters that can transform itself into clothing and transport bags, and provide autonomous habitats offering mobility and protection in situations of human distress or unsuitable social environments. The artist has developed the series Refugee Wear in collaboration with individuals in difficulty and nomadic populations as well, like homeless people for instance, to create different prototypes that provide a comfortable place to rest in extreme conditions.

For each profession Larmessin composed a form of dress whose elements were borrowed as if in a dream from the tools of the relevant activity, which were then arranged into a sort of general line or signifying gestalt: it is a kind of frenetic pan-symbolism, a creation which is both poetic and intelligible, in which the profession is represented by its imaginary essence...

Arte Útil roughly translates into English as 'useful art' but it goes further suggesting art as a tool or device. Whether through self-organised groups, individual initiatives or the rise of user generated content people are developing new methods and social formations to deal with issues that were once the domain of the state. Arte Útil case studies show how these initiatives are not isolated incidents, but part of a global movement shaping our contemporary world.

Designer Eugénie de la Rivière recently launched a prototype of a very small robot that traces spoiled energy in public space. The robots, presented at the graduation show of the Design Academy in Eindhoven, are plugged into places where energy is wasted, such as warm air leaving a restaurant’s window, wind blowing around the corner of a huge building, or light shining through a window.

Artist Tino Seubert stains his garments with what's essentially airborne pollution. In The Colour of Air, Seubert wryly dubs the concentration of particulate matter from transport and manufacturing an "untapped resource." Inspired by the ancient Egyptians, who suspended carbon dust in water to create a crude form of India ink, Seubert harvested soot from diesel particulate filters to adapt in multiple ways.

The film tracks a series of gleaners as they hunt for food, knicknacks, thrown away items, and personal connection. Varda travels the French countryside as well as the city to find and film not only field gleaners, but also urban gleaners and those connected to gleaners, including a wealthy restaurant owner whose ancestors were gleaners. The film spends time capturing the many aspects of gleaning and the many people who glean to survive.